The Three Laws of Nature, Moses, and Christ, Corrupted by the Sodomites, Pharisees, and Papists

Bale, John, published 1548 · moral · Interlude;Nonprofessional · other editions of this work: 41 (1562)

30chunks

15,015words

4topics

7 %unassigned

Metadata

Title	The Three Laws of Nature, Moses, and Christ, Corrupted by the Sodomites, Pharisees, and Papists
Author	Bale, John
Publication year (edition)	1548
Genre (British Drama)	moral
Genre group (comparison)	moral — from the British Drama label · Annals: morality
Play type	Interlude;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEP	work 24 · edition 40 · TCP A02738 · DEEP 34
Edition role	Representative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)	1538 [revised c.1547 and 1562]
First performance (BritDrama)	1538 [perhaps at New Year]
Publisher	Straten, Derick van der
Format	Octavo
STC	1287
Greg	24a
Genre (Annals)	Anti-Catholic Moral
Genre (BritDrama)	Moral
BritDrama no.	51
Title page	A Comedy concernynge thre lawes, of nature Moses, & Christ, corrupted by the Sodomytes. Pharysees and Papystes.
Corpus build	corpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 1918 · witness single

Topic composition (share of words)

T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation

73.6 %

T31 Popes, cardinals and the crown

13.1 %

unassigned

6.6 %

T26 Devils, hell and fiends

3.4 %

T28 Marriage-making: weddings, brides and ma

3.3 %

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1	0–61	504	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.69	IN ych comen wealth, most high prchemynence, Is due unto laws for such commodity, As is had by them, For as Ci…
2	62–117	509	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.66	Our laws are all one, though you do three apere Like wise as our will, is all one in effect. But because that …
3	118–174	510	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.71	Where shall I sweet lord, for that same season dewell With such hard rulers, as will the people compel. Our mi…
4	175–262	501	unassigned		Brom, brom, brom, brom, brom. buy brom buy buy. Brome's for shoes and pow●h●rynges, botes and buskyns for new …
5	263–367	521	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.76	The beasts and birds engender, So do the fishes tendre, According to their kind alonely man doth fall, From go…
6	368–460	516	T26 Devils, hell and fiends	0.74	And are ye gone in deed? Small wyttam be your speed, Except ye take good heed, I will be next of your counsel.…
7	461–549	487	unassigned		I have charms for the plough, And also for the cough, She shall give milk enough, So long as I am pleased. Apa…
8	550–637	487	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.70	Myself I so behave, And am so vile a knave. As nature doth deprave, And utterly abheire. I am soche a vice tru…
9	638–720	490	T31 Popes, cardinals and the crown	0.72	In Rome to me they fall, Both bishop and cardinal. Monk, friar, priest and all, More rank they are than ants. …
10	721–783	524	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.78	Ye Christian rulers, so you for this a way, Be not illuded, by false hypocrisy. By the stroke of God, the worl…
11	784–851	505	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.78	When the priests might walk. And with young wives talk. Than had we children plenty. Than cuckolds might leap,…
12	852–907	502	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.74	By the blessed lord, than will I play Robsons part. Why, what part wilt thu play? By cocks soul give over. so …
13	908–966	523	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.67	Soch knights will I have, as shall confound them all As Sadducees & scribes, with the sect pharysayeal By help…
14	967–1021	504	T31 Popes, cardinals and the crown	0.71	let the cloisterers, be brought up ever in silence, Without the scriptures, in pain of disobedience. See the l…
15	1022–1081	498	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.73	I marvel how he, could come to so much good. Yes, yes, by pollage, and by shedding Christian blood. Crosers an…
16	1082–1136	498	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.86	Thus a blind crypple, I wander here alone, Abiding the time, and grace of restoration, By the son of God To wh…
17	1137–1193	499	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.60	As thu art, thu speakest, after they hearts abundance For as the man is, such in his utterance. My wife is the…
18	1194–1247	494	T28 Marriage-making: weddings, brides and ma	0.66	By mysunderstanding, thu art ungraciously beguiled An only minister, was paule in that same doing, That he the…
19	1248–1296	484	T31 Popes, cardinals and the crown	0.77	Thu shalt sure have, a livery of the same cloth, Gramercyes by God, my old friend infidelity. What, brother sn…
20	1297–1347	494	T31 Popes, cardinals and the crown	0.73	Ioannes Cremons', an other good cardinal, For reformation of the clergy spiritual, Came once into England, to …
21	1348–1400	503	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.69	What is their prattling, I pray the heartily tell me. They say, thu teachest, nothing but lousy traditions And…
22	1401–1454	499	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.63	Yea, and let the pope, as Gods own vicar here, In his hand three crosses, & iij, crowns on his head here. His …
23	1455–1506	479	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.75	In his first chapter, this horrible sentence is, Quis haec frustranea quaesivit de manibus vestris. Who hath r…
24	1507–1560	484	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.78	Then give me a bell, for I will be an other. O damnable leading, of babylonical sodomytes, Yourselves ye decla…
25	1561–1612	488	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.74	Yea, burn him weal friar, and let him no longer reign, Say on green fagotes, to put him to the more pain. By t…
26	1613–1669	500	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.80	I made wasps & dranes, them grievously to sting, And all kinds of flies, soon after ded I in bring Upon their …
27	1670–1729	508	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.75	As ye have scene here, how I have stricken with fire The pestilent vice, of infidelity. So will I destroy, in …
28	1730–1787	504	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.76	Now have we destroyed, the kingdom of Babylon, And thrown the great whore, into the bottomless pit, Restoring …
29	1788–1843	486	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.74	The effect of me, is for to worship the lord. As one God alone, and to flee from idolatry. Nor to slay nor ste…
30	1844–1917	514	T5 Christian faith, sin and salvation	0.75	damnable darkness, as my bother here doth say, He hath delivered, this realm of England godly bringing his sub…

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